July releases from the Criterion Collection

By rahmat hidayat

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

THE CRITERION COLLECTION JULY 25, 2023 Our July Releases

The Watermelon Woman The wry, incisive debut feature by Cheryl Dunye balances breezy romantic comedy with a serious inquiry into the history of Black and queer women in Hollywood, introducing an important voice in American cinema. Special Features: New conversations featuring Dunye and artist-filmmaker Martine Syms, producer Alexandra Juhasz, and film scholar Thomas Allen Harris; six early short films by Dunye; and more After Hours An uptown Manhattan office worker ventures downtown for the wildest night of his life in Martin Scorsese's Kafkaesque cult classic, which turns the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.  Special Features: A new conversation between Scorsese and writer Fran Lebowitz; audio commentary featuring Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, actor and producer Griffin Dunne, and others; and more The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher These briskly entertaining westerns by underappreciated auteur Budd Boetticher starring Randolph Scott transcend their 1950s B-movie origins to become rich, unexpectedly profound explorations of loyalty, greed, honor, and revenge.  Special Features: Audio commentaries, introductions by filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Taylor Hackford, archival interviews with Boetticher, a new program on Scott, and more Breathless With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. Special Features: 4K UHD release with a new restoration of the film; interviews with Godard, Belmondo, Seberg, Jean-Pierre Melville, and others; Charlotte et son Jules, a 1959 short film by Godard featuring Belmondo; and more One False Move Desperate lives converge in Carl Franklin's masterclass in slow-burn tension, a film that travels a crooked road across America's most fraught divisions—urban and rural, Black and white—while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth. Special Features: Audio commentary featuring Franklin, a new conversation between Franklin and cowriter-actor Billy Bob Thornton, and more For further information on Criterion and our products, please visit our website at criterion.com. To start streaming the Criterion Channel, please visit criterionchannel.com. If you are not already on our mailing list and would like to be added, please click here to register at criterion.com. To unsubscribe, click here.  © 2023 The Criterion Collection :: 215 Park Ave S. New York, NY 10003

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